Malagò re-elected to the Presidency of CONI for the 2017-2020 four-year period
Giovanni Malagò has been re-elected as President of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) for the 2017-2020 four-year period. In office since 19 February 2013, Malagò was re-elected by a large majority of the members of the National Council which convened this morning in the CONI Hall of Honour, beating 67-2 his opponent, Sergio Grifoni, former President of the Italian Orienteering Federation. Malagò, who is 58 years of age, is now in his second term of office as President of the Italian National Olympic Committee.
During the course of the morning, the round of voting ended with the election of the Executive Board, which appointed Franco Chimenti (Deputy) and Alessandra Sensini (Olympic sailing champion at Sydney 2000) as Vice Presidents. Confirmed as Secretary General was Roberto Fabbricini, and as Vice-Secretary, Carlo Mornati, rowing silver medallist at Sydney 2000.
The other members of the Executive Board are: Francesco Ricci Bitti (Asoif President), Angelo Binaghi (Tennis), Flavio Roda (Alpine Skiing), Alfio Giomi (Athletics), Sabatino Aracu (Rollersport), Carlo Magri (Volleyball), Roberto Cammarelle (Olympic boxing champion at Beijing 2008), Valentina Turisini (shooting silver medallist at Athens 2004 and Shooting National Team Head Coach), Sergio D’Antoni and Guglielmo Talento (Territorial Representatives), Giovanni Gallo (Sports Promotion Bodies).
Taking part in the voting were the three Italian members of the IOC: Franco Carraro (former president of the Assembly), Mario Pescante and Ivo Ferriani. Also present were the two honorary members of the IOC: Ottavio Cinquanta and Manuela Di Centa.
Giovanni Malagò’s first words after his election were. “I am proud of the result and of the confidence which the members of the Committee continue to place in me, ready to achieve new goals in the interest of the growth of Italian sport. I shall undertake to improve and consolidate our top-level achievements and further increase the number of youngsters who practise sports in our country. Courage and new ideas are needed to concretize a four-year period able to meet the standards set by the prestige and history of CONI”.
National Council press release
The 251st National Council of CONI met this afternoon, at 17:30, in the Salone d’Onore of the Foro Italico to discuss the following agenda:
1) Approval of the minutes of the meeting held on February 14, 2017: approved unanimously.
2) President’s communications: Malagò opened the proceedings by greeting the newly elected members of the Council and by handing the Golden Star for sports merit to the athletes’ representative Raffaella Masciadri before commemorating the sports personalities who passed away in the last three months and underlining the important results achieved by Italian athletes in the same period.
The President (photo by Simone Ferraro) has then revealed – in view of the forthcoming designation of the Istituto di Credito Sportivo’s authorities by the Council of Ministers – that the name of Paolo Vaccari has been proposed as CONI candidate for ICS’s Board of Directors.
Regarding the Coni Servizi-National Sports Federations events, the focus has been placed on the importance of the efforts made by the Body to guarantee an organisation that lives up to the expectations in reference to the next events, especially considering the overlap of 2017 TIM CUP Final (football) and the Italian Tennis Open Internazionali BNL d’Italia on the most crowded day at the Foro Italico, and also all the other events organised in partnership, including the Athletics Golden Gala Pietro Mennea and the swimming race Settecolli. Special mention should be made of the inclusion of Piazza di Siena in the Equestrian Sports list and the pride of hosting the Archery World Cup finals at the Stadio dei Marmi. Among the 2017 international events that took place in Italy, there was also a mention of the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Pesaro and the Mountain Bike World Cup finals.
The President recalled the budgeting for the upgrading and the expansion of Acqua Acetosa’s anti-doping laboratory and the transfer of the library of the former Civis building to enable a better accessibility of the facility managed by the School of Sports.
The Council then discussed Milan’s candidacy to host the 2019 IOC session, underlining the great job done by the group led by Diana Bianchedi and her team, waiting for the formal investiture which is expected to take place in Lima in September.
To close, Malagò proudly spoke about CONI’s budget, which earned the approval of the vigilance bodies thanks to record numbers in terms of revenues, and expressed his satisfaction about the reduction of the maximum limit of non EU-nationals which dropped to 1149, 11 less than last year, and about the introduction of a new discipline into the register of the ASD (Amateur Sports Clubs), reaching a total of 385. CONI is proud to be the only organisation to follow many disciplines, responding to the wishes and the wills of the generations to come. Malagò has finally greeted the Council, reminding them of tomorrow’s elective meeting schedule and revealing that the facilities located at the beginning of Viale delle Olimpiadi will be named respectively after Ondina Valla (the former hostel) and Edoardo Mangiarotti (the building adjacent to the Sala delle Armi), whereas the Sala Polifunzionale of the Palazzo delle Federazioni will be named after Vittorio Pozzo.
The following people commented on the report and other themes: Maurizio Casasco (Sports Medicine), Giovanni Petrucci (Basketball), Angelo Sticchi Damiani (Automobil Club), Ugo Claudio Matteoli (Sport Fishing and Underwater Activities), Marco Di Paola (Equestrian Sports), Franco Chimenti (Golf).
3) F.S.N .- D.S.A. - E.P.S. activities: The Council unanimously approved the following resolutions: 1) proposal for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers according to the article 22 of the Law of 30 July 2002, no. 189 as amended, maximum annual limit of 1149 non-EU athletes that will practice professional or in any case compensated sports activities as far as 2017/2018 season is concerned 2) Integration – under the term “Skyrunning” – of the list of sports disciplines eligible in the National Register of Amateur Sports Clubs (ASD), reaching a total of 385.
4) Administrative affairs and CONI budget: The Council unanimously approved the 2016 budget.
CONI’s 2016 budget approved today by CONI’s National Council presents an economic breakeven (+ € 0.26m), in line with 2015 result and with the budget estimate disclosed at the end of last year. The production value is equal to € 458.1m, the main components of which are the MEF resources (€ 415.5m), the contributions received from the Ministries (€ 12,7bn), the commercial incomes due to the utilization of CONI’s brand (€ 15.5m) and the contributions received by Local Bodies directly from regional committees (€ 8.9m).
Production costs, which amount to € 456.3m, have been mainly allocated for the benefit of National Sports Federations, for over € 289m (around 63% of the total production costs),€ 248.9m as direct contributions and € 40.4m (VAT excluded) as services in kind performed by Coni Servizi SpA with regard to the fee of the annual service contract. The other elements of the production costs are represented by the contributions to the other financed (€ 29.7m), the fee of the service contract referred to the activities performed by the Company on behalf of CONI (€ 58.6m VAT excluded), the amounts allocated to the State by way of VAT and in application of the rules of public spending reduction (€ 23.8m, 5% of the production costs), and the costs sustained directly by CONI’s regional committees (€ 27.7m, 6% of the production costs).
Having nothing else to discuss, the Council was concluded at 18:30.
Italia Team launches "Destinazione PyeongChang 2018"
Italia Team launches “Destinazione PyeongChang 2018”. The President of CONI, Giovanni Malagò and the Deputy Secretary General and Head of Mission of the Italia Team, Carlo Mornati, have presented at the Museion – Contemporary and Modern Art Museum- in Bolzano the initiatives for the forthcoming Olympic Games to be staged in South Korea on 9-25 February 2018. The athletes who are members of the Olympic Club took part in the press conference, together with the presidents of the two Federations involved, Flavio Roda for the FISI (Italian Winter Sports Federation) and Andrea Gios for the FISG (Italian Ice Sports Federation).
CONI President Giovanni Malagò opened with an introduction speech.
“Carlo has history, style and preparation. He embodies a major profile, setting an example that makes other countries envy us. A great athlete does not necessarily become a great executive, but I think that, if you have become a champion and you put yourself in a position to understand how some things work, you can go far. He is going to be our guide in the PyeongChang expedition. I think that Winter Games these days are considered to be increasingly appealing to young people, sponsors, TV – and, for this reason, I would like to thank Discovery, which invested in the product – as it understood, in the best possible way, the process of change that also affects the Olympics programme.
I would like to thank the Presidents of FISI and FISG, Roda and Gios, for the Federations’ efforts and, of course, the athletes, who represent the best of our image. We are proud of our movement: there is no country like ours, with 384 disciplines. This is our history. We have around 10 months left before the Games. I am happy for today in Bolzano because we owe a lot to this area that has given us so much. I would like to thank Innerhofer, my first medal-holder as President of CONI, and all the winners of the previous Games that are here today. We will do better than Sochi, where something went wrong and the rest was bad luck. My thoughts go to Zoeggeler who is candidate at IOC as an athlete representative member.
In conclusion, I would like to say that I have seen some extraordinary EA7 uniforms: Italia Team will be envied by all, it is surely going to win in terms of style. These Olympics are going to go down in history, thanks to our colours.”
Carlo Mornati went into detail. “We have come a long way for 2018, having worked with two federations that have alone covered 102 Olympic Games. A unique case in the world, they are the first and fourth top federations by number of events. Flavio Roda and Andrea Gios are men with an experience and, thanks to them, we managed to do a good job. Although their headquarters are in Milan, they were very good at figuring out change on a central level. CONI provides assistance, scientific support, synergies and resources: both Federations received €37.9 million in funding from 2014 to 2017, not to mention the €276,000-worth of activities funded in 2015-2016 and around €2 million between Olympic Club and Olympic promises: we have covered almost one hundred athletes, a number that almost matches the whole expedition to the Games, if we consider the previous ones.
We do not want to live the experience every four years: there is constant relationship of exchange with the Club project that needs to last permanently. PyeongChang should be easy to live in because everything is very compact. There are six novelties in the programme compared with Sochi and there are going to be two clusters of reference where the Games will take place. We have organised everything so as to meet every need in a functional way. Casa Italia will be a very welcoming centre for the athletes. From Seoul, we will travel to the villages by train for security reasons. I am sure we will do well in PyeongChang, but I would like to recall a figure that serves a useful point of reference.
For the record, Sochi was the sixth Olympics by number of medals won and came 22nd in final place, in the medal collection, which notably lacking in gold. The average medals won by Italy, in the history of the Olympics, is five. Five like the edition in double figures: Albertville and Lillehammer, however, took place 2 years apart and benefitted from the same generation of prodigies. We will go to Korea with ambition and conviction”.
Danilo di Tommaso, CONI Head of Communications, showed the athletes Article 48 of the Olympic Charter and informed the journalists present that “no media representative can enter the athletes’ residential area. There are only two exceptions, on the 6 and 8 February, when the IOC will organise a tour of the Olympic Village. Otherwise, every day two hundred accredited journalists will be granted access to the central area of the Village”. Di Tommaso also presented the new website, pyeongchang2018.coni.it, launched today in both Italian and English; he then introduced Luigi Ecuba, Senior Director of Sports Discovery Networks in Southern Europe. Discovery has indeed obtained the rights for the Summer and Winter Olympic Games from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2024.
“We hope our collaboration will also last beyond 2024. Discovery’s trademark is more about storytelling, that is, telling what lies behind the live Olympics’ event. Our story is based on training, sacrifice, the story of the athletes up until the event, which is not just a sports event, but of pathos and belonging. For Eurosport Discovery, we are redefining the Olympic Games, making them available on various screens, from TVs to smartphones. For this redefinition of the Olympics, for the first time, in PyeongChang, Eurosport Italia will be completely independent from Eurosport International and, as of the autumn, we are going to tell the story of sacrifice that lies behind a victory or disappointment”.
Diego Nepi, Italia Team Marketing Director, highlighted the meaning and concept of Casa Italia for the Winter Games. “It has given us the willingness and the passion that only sports and your accomplishments could give us. We returned from Rio very excited and satisfied. In Italy, we encountered difficult situation due to the earthquake. Since the season reopened, your victories have rekindled the flame. You are at the centre of our project, not only because of the results but also thanks to your sacrifice and the example you set every day. Casa Italia will be the centre of emotions, we are going to give life – together with Discovery – to what lies behind the result. It is not just an area for hospitality but also for communication. There will be no rules at the centre, only our DNA. It is very important to me to grow our value thanks to our sponsors, our partners and those who support and believe in the Italia Team”.
Malagò, before concluding and giving the kits to the Olympic Club athletes, reminded that “at the next Board meeting, if I am still President, we are going to win the same level of medals as those won by our Summer Games colleagues. From October to January, according to our schedule, we will attend the ceremony at the Quirinal Palace where we will be handed the Italian flag”.
Peter Fill and Sofia Goggia expressed their ambition and hope for the Italia Team, bringing the day to a satisfying close with the claim “Incredible is not impossible. Fire on the Ice”, which will be the Italia Team’s slogan ahead of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games.
WINTER OLYMPIC CLUB 2017 – 39 ATLETHES
Dominik Fischnaller
Ludwig Rieder Luge
Patrick Rastner
Andrea Voetter
Peter Fill
Elena Curtoni
Sofia Goggia
Dominik Paris
Giuliano Razzoli Alpine Skiing
Riccardo Tonetti
Federica Brignone
Chiara Costazza
Irene Curtoni
Manuela Moelgg
Alexia Runggaldier
Dominik Windisch
Lukas Hofer
Dorothea Wierer
Lisa Vittozzi Biathlon
Federica Sanfilippo
Giuseppe Montello
Thomas Bormolini
Federico Pellegrino
Dietmar Noeckler Cross country Skiing
Armin Bauer
Lukas Runggaldier Nordic Combined
Alessandro Pittin
Samuel Costa
Michela Moioli
Raffaella Brutto Snowboard
Andrea Giovannini
Michele Malfatti
Nicola Tumolero Speed Skating
Francesca Lollobrigida
Davide Ghiotto
Carolina Kostner
Anna Cappellini Figure Skating
Luca Lanotte
Arianna Fontana Short Track
Italia Team website for the 23rd Winter Olympic Games now online
As and from today, the website http://www.pyeongchang2018.coni.it is online. This is entirely dedicated to the Italian Mission for the 23nd Winter Olympic Games of PyeongChang 2018.
This CONI initiative, at just less than 300 days from the start of the Olympic event, will accompany the Italian athletes through to the Games due to begin on 9 February next. During the Olympics, the website will be updated in real time with all the competitions in which Italian athletes take part. This is a useful easy-reference tool for operators, fans and sportspersons because it contains all useful and necessary data for becoming better acquainted with the protagonists who will be representing Italy in Korea.
Also interesting is the historical section with all the “all time” Italian medal winners and finalists. Website graphics and design are by Coninet, the CONI’s IT arm, while the texts, reports, biographies, news and curiosities were created by the Olympic Committee’s Office for Communication and Relations with the Media with the support of the FISI and FISG press offices. The website also includes a section dedicated to sponsors and another on Casa Italia to be set up in the Alpensia Resort’s Yongpyong Golf Club. After the great experience in Sochi, there will also be an English version of the Italia Team’s website.
Presidency and National Board candidates
At 2 pm today, upon the expiry of the term set for candidacy applications for the Presidency and the National Board, in view of the Elective National Council of 11 May, the following people have officially presented their candidacy applications:
PRESIDENCY: Giovanni Malagò, Sergio Grifoni
NATIONAL BOARD
FSN-DSA REPRESENTATIVES (7 places, 5 of which at most for Federal Presidents): Sergio Anesi, Sabatino Aracu (FISR), Angelo Binaghi (FIT), Franco Chimenti (FIG), Luca Di Mauro, Renato Di Rocco (FCI), Riccardo Fraccari, Alfio Giomi (FIDAL), Carlo Magri, Ugo Claudio Matteoli (FIPSAS), Fabio Pigozzi, Gianfranco Ravà (FICR), Francesco Ricci Bitti, Flavio Roda (FISI), Luciano Rossi (FITAV).
ATHLETES (2 places, with equal gender representation): Roberto Cammarelle (FPI), Alessandra Sensini (FIV)
COACHES (1 place): Valentina Turisini (UITS), Ernesto Zanetti (FIPE)
SPORTS PROMOTION BODIES (1 place): Claudio Barbaro (ASI), Vittorio Bosio (CSI), Giovanni Gallo (PGS), Luigi Musacchia (Libertas), Luca Stevanato (ASC)
REGIONAL COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVE (1 place): Sergio D’Antoni, Fabio Sturani, Riccardo Viola
PROVINCIAL COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVE (1 place): Gianfranco Porqueddu, Guglielmo Talento, Riccardo Viola
“Incredible is not impossible. Fire on the Ice”, is the claim in Bolzano for PyeongChang 2018
At the end of the presentation of the Olympic Club and CONI initiatives for the next Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang 2018, held at Museion - Museum of modern and contemporary art- in Bolzano, Italian athletes Peter Fill and Sofia Goggia expressed the ambition and hope of the Italia Team and claimed “Incredible is not impossible. Fire on the Ice”: this is the slogan chosen for the Italia Team on their way to the XXIII Olympic Winter Games. A claim that we hope brings the same luck as “We are ready to fly. You cannot chase dreams with your feet on the ground”, that set the pace of the victories of the Italia Team at the Summer Olympics in Rio 2016.
Tomorrow, Malagò and Mornati will be presenting “Destinazione PyeongChang 2018”
On Thursday 20, in Bolzano, the President of the CONI, Giovanni Malagò, and the Head of Mission of the Italia Team, Carlo Mornati, will be presenting “Destinazione PyeongChang 2018”. With less than 300 days to go before the start of the Winter Olympic Games, the Italian National Olympic Committee will be organizing a press conference to illustrate the projects and initiatives already implemented and those in the pipeline before the forthcoming Olympic Games to be staged in South Korea on 9-25 February next year. Taking part in the press conference will be the Italian male and female athletes who are members of the Olympic Club, together with the presidents of the two Federations involved, Flavio Roda for the FISI (Italian Winter Sports Federation) and Andrea Gios for the FISG (Italian Ice Sports Federation). The meeting with the media representatives will be staged at the Museion, Museum of modern and contemporary art (Piazza Piero Siena 1), and will begin at 12 noon.
Here are the 4 coaches on the National Selection Council. Arancio (Rugby) wins the most votes
The coaches, who met at the "Giulio Onesti" Acqua Acetosa Olympic Preparation Centre, elected 4 category representatives for the National Selection Council on 11 May. They are Orazio Arancio (Rugby) with 40 votes, Lorenzo Bernardi (Volleyball) with 33 votes, Emanuela Maccarani (Gymnastics) with 26 votes, and Daniela Isetti (Cycling) with 17 votes. A total of 48 coaches voted (with 3 spoiled ballots): Alessandro Campagna (Water Polo) led those that weren't elected, with 12 votes, and Paolo Romano Barbera (Sailing) received 1 vote.
National Elective Council, here are the 9 athletes. Masciadri (Basketball) takes most votes
This morning, in the Olympic Preparation Centre of Acqua Acetosa, the three elective days of the category Meetings that have to elect the various representatives at the National Elective Council on 11 May began.
The first ballot concerned the athletes: out of the 117 entitled to vote, 93 selected the representatives in the Council’s meeting body. These are the 9 elected athletes: Raffaella Masciadri (Basketball) 54 votes, Silvia Salis (Athletics) 49, Margherita Granbassi 45, Kelum Asanka Perera (Cricket) 41, Carlo Molfetta (Taekwondo) 39, Mara Santangelo (Tennis) 39, Giulia Quintavalle (Judo) 37, Raffaello Leonardo (Rowing) 36, Daniele Molmenti (Canoe) 27. First of the non-elected athletes was Giovanni Pellielo (Shooting (Trap)) with 25 votes and Valentina Marchei (Ice Skating) with 24. Finally, Alessandro Lambruschini (Triathlon) took 20 preferences and Simone Perrotta (Football) 11 votes.
Figure skating, six Olympic qualifications thanks to the results of the Helsinki World Championships
Thanks to the great results of the figure skating World Championships staged in Helsinki, Italy has bagged six Nation places for the 2018 PyeongChang Games. The Italian team did in fact achieve 2 places in the women’s singles, thanks to the 6th place of Carolina Kostner (130.50 points), 2 places in the artistic pairs, with the historic ninth place of the tandem Valentina Marchei-Ondrej Hotàrek (203.93, new Italian record) and 2 more places in the dance pairs, thanks to Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte, who took sixth place (183.73).
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